What’s unusual about you? What do you know or care about that few other do?

I will go first Day One Journal Ultrahuman Strava Trello Figma App Substack Testflight xD xD

Inspired by Peter thiel’s famous interview question

e.g in my case: 1. I go for a walk almost everyday around 12:30ish AM (in HSR). Helps me process how my day went. 2. Whenever I used to book a rapido bike/scooty, i used to drive it myself with the rapido driver as pillion. (just asked them nicely, 90% of them didn't refuse). Now I have my own bike though. 3. Most of the time when I have traveled in a train, i travel in the general box of trains. Only to connect/listen to stories of that section of our society, even though i could afford tickets for other classes. your turn:

Like for example - Engineering in CSE but not working as software engineer Left normal corporate jobs, started freelancing Found out entirely new profession to do? Farming? Curious on what made you take that decision! What the world convinced you about the decision? Did your friends and family treated you differently when you didn't walk the conventional path?

A lot of noise around AI taking coding jobs, which i fear might be real. Like not completely but you get my point. So how should one upskill themselves (especially the average folks, top 1/2% will not be affected in any field imo) for the upcoming shift? Like will data analytics/science or maybe ai/ml engineering jobs be on rise ? Should be start upskilling in those fields or any other suggestions? I would really like to know it from someone who has good experience in the industry or someone with good insight. Thanks

Not trying to seek validation of my trait. But I feel like I have a unique trait where I take inspiration from ordinary, below average and mediocre people. Here’s what keeps me charged. 1. If this person can do it, why can’t I? 2. If an ordinary person with hardly any knowledge can boast his skillsets on LinkedIn, why can’t I go ahead and build something useful for this society, not on LinkedIn? 3. If ordinary people can become popular on Instagram by uploading cringe content, why can’t I make something inspirational for people around the world? 4. If ordinary people can earn way higher salary than me, why can’t I find alternate source of income by unleashing my expertise? 5. If every Tom, Dick & Harry can claim to be a coach by spamming with countless ads, why can’t I create something useful and free to use content that can instill genuine knowledge? I’m getting way lower than I deserve in terms of remuneration and it is natural to compare and feel bad, but that doesn’t demotivate me to create something good. Just penning down my heart out.

We’ve all read the software engineer turned PM story. And although very commendable, and kudos to them for doing what needs to be done, I’d love to hear people who’ve gone down the not so traditional career path or have had weird career trajectories. Are you happy about the decisions you’ve made? Are you content? Is there something you would do differently?

I mean what are some of hobbies that you are doing be it health-wise, sports, trips, other activity ? something that add an extra layer of intrest in your life, that break monotonous working vibe reduce pressure of always being productive Hoping for good variety of answers 😅 something that I can adopt

I can't seem to relate to much of the non-FAANG junta out there. I mean I have a cushy job with probably 0.1% pay of all SWEs(pretty much like all of us do). But these cookie-cutter roles have been taking a mental toll on me. Like I am getting paid but I feel a little purpose-less. What am I gunning for in this life? All my life I wanted to go to a good college to get into a good company. In college I wanted to get a good codeforces rank so that I could get into FAANG. Now that I am in FAANG I have nothing to look forward to. Any of you all feeling this way? Because I don't see myself offer-shopping and feeling much happy about that either.